Portman and Captain Phillips were invited to the port where the Spaniards were, here they came, it used to be their port, now it is occupied by the Spaniards, before the Spaniards, it was occupied by the Chinese Empire, but the tribes and clans of the Bengal region here, as well as those Indians, caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese Empire, they only need to provoke a little Mars, and the Chinese Empire will have to retreat.

Now that the arrival of Spain, and the soldiers and horses of the Indians led by them, have completely cleaned up this place, almost eight-tenths of the population has either fled or been slaughtered by both sides, which is exactly what is the disaster of no reason, without those intricate peoples and tribes, clan populations, their control here will drop to a freezing point.

It will be easy for the Spaniards to take control of this place, just learn what they have done before.

Walking into this Gothic building in the thirties, Portman and Captain Phillips looked at the skylight in the corner of the building with interest, where was it collapsed by the British artillery, some time ago, the British army of 30,000 attacked here, facing the port guarded by only 8,000 troops, 30,000 Indians, 2,000 British fought very easily, if it were not for the support of the Spaniards with naval guns, 2,000 Spanish regular army soldiers landed and attacked the British flank defense, The Spaniards did not know if they could withstand the 8,000 soldiers and horses led by Sky Shadow to attack from behind and cut off the retreat of the British, and finally the British retreated from the sea, and the Indians were routed and all fled.

Rear Admiral Montero, the commander of the Spanish fleet, was arguing with the members of the House of Representatives, and in the face of such a situation, Rear Admiral Montero meant to take advantage of the situation to attack and drive the British out of India, while His Excellency the Parliamentarian looked sorrowful, and at the same time his ears were red and his neck was thick, and he shouted loudly: "Impossible, we cannot defeat the British, we can take it when we see it, we can redeem this place with money, and use this place as a port and a place of stay for us in the Far East, and we should have good relations with the British, otherwise we will not be able to gain a foothold here." ”

Major General Montero was not angry, he finally won the battle, and immediately gained a firm foothold here, why did he still beg others in a low voice, what kind of brain is this person?

He threw the door out, the major general stood up, the parliamentarian shook his head, and said in a low voice: "This is the territory of the British, we have taken away others, how to say that we owe others, Britain is not something we can afford to provoke, look at that Chinese man, he is not a good person who is arrogant, and he doesn't know what to calculate?" Here, if we can't get together with the British, then we will definitely suffer in the future, and then it will be the British who will see the jokes, it doesn't matter if they lose a palm-sized place, they are mainly afraid of losing face. ”

The major general of the army is not in a hurry, he was in a hurry before, but now he is not in a hurry, the war on land has been won, the gray hair in his hair was pulled off yesterday, and no one can see it when he wears a hood, at present there are more than 1,700 regular army troops, and more than 700 people are wounded, only two or three hundred people are dead, and dozens of people are captured, as for those mercenaries, only 800 people who died can move, but it is just a matter of some money, and it has nothing to do with him, it is a matter of parliamentarians.

He was thinking about where to send these men, of course, most of them were to guard the harbor, which was their main defensive target, and in order for the fleet to have a foothold in the Far East, the army could not move at all, and the mercenaries were sent to pursue the stragglers, capture the fleeing Bengalis and Indians, and even some British deserters.

As for what to do in the future, that is something that the fleet commander and the councilors worry about, and it is not something he worries about, he just cooperates with them.

The parliamentarian himself muttered for a long time when he saw that the rear admiral did not speak, and it was also very boring, he was worried in his heart that this impulsive Rear Admiral Montero, the commander of the fleet, could not fight any longer, this battle had turned Spain's interests from a rich to a loss, at least the loss of 2,000 Spanish soldiers was a big trouble, and the wounded more than 1,000 people were also a big trouble, and the damaged warships and sunken merchant ships, as well as the captured merchant ships and warships, had to be explained to the Spanish king and royal family.

Fortunately, there were more than 100,000 Indian prisoners, thousands of British prisoners, dozens of British officers, and even if the British did not redeem themselves for the Indians, not for ordinary British soldiers, the officers still had to redeem themselves, otherwise even the Governor would not be able to account to their queen.

In this way, a ransom can also minimize Spain's losses this time, and then it will take a sum of money to ransom this British port or the entire Bengal region, but he thinks that it is right to ask for a port, and the other Bengalis are not what he wants, and he will not spend a penny for them, it is too poor and chaotic here, even if there are people, take care of it, the trouble in the future will be constant, and the input and output are disproportionate.

Now those people have been killed, and it won't be of any use, even if they are used as cheap labor, they can't do anything, the port has been almost destroyed after two battles, and the construction cost is still a lot, so you can't let the sailors and soldiers do it, right?

If the British don't want the Indians, it's a good workforce.

He said to the attendant lieutenant beside him, "Go and invite the British, I want to talk to them." ”

The attendant aide-de-camp Shi Li walked out, and after a while, the Englishmen Portman and Phillips walked in, and they took off their hats and saluted, and then sat on either side of the long negotiating table on the left and right.

After a few people exchanged pleasantries for a while, Portman couldn't hold back and loudly rebuked the Spaniards for being shameless and attacking the British colonies, vowing to make Britain declare war on the Kingdom of Spain.

The councillor smiled, very patiently and the other party, sometimes even stood up and slapped the table with the other party to argue, the two sides of you back and forth, each sentence is more intense, one sentence is louder than the other, it seems that the negotiation is also a kind of manual work, the two people tear the thick robe with their hands, exuding the body heat brought by the fierce debate, while the eyes are rolling rapidly, the mouth is still unyielding arguments, thinking of countless words in their minds, and finally, the two army officers proposed to adjourn the meeting.

The two sides ended the pointless quarrel in an awkward atmosphere, as they did not discuss any feasible ways to ease the war that broke out between the two countries over the colony.

And outside, on the sea, the British fleet had arrived along the coastline, hiding in a harbor, with many masts, huge hulls, pulling the sails of the wind, with the ups and downs of the sea, up and down, but the muzzles of the guns were torn open, ready to deal with unexpected situations.

During this time, two more British warships arrived, the hull was quite large, and there were steam paddle wheels, and sails were hanging, and there was a faint green smoke rising from the smoke, and it seemed that the steam engine was not started, and it was on fire.

The battleship weighed 3,500 tons.

The front artillery was also replaced with the heavy turret artillery of the Chinese Empire, but the turret was open, the turret of the Chinese Empire was semi-enclosed, some were fully enclosed, the artillery was full of 32 pounds caliber, the muzzle was as much as 100 millimeters, and a groove under the turret was placed in a copper round-tipped cannonball, it seems that the British did not steal the technology of the Chinese Empire in the past two years, at least they learned the technology of the Chinese Empire and began to develop it themselves.

The turret is semi-rotating, and the turntable can only turn about one hundred and thirty degrees, which is not fast and heavy and laborious, but it is also a very big improvement.

The whole ship is only an iron wood hull, an iron skeleton, and the keel main beam is made of giant wood wrapped in iron hoops, compared to the Spanish or other countries' warships still use wooden keels, which is already quite progressive.

There was also one such heavy gun behind the hull, and the rest of the guns were still similar to those of the Spaniards, hidden in the hull and opened to fire.

Rear Admiral Gibbs was very happy, looking at the two new British warships, full of confidence, they have here two warships of more than 2,000 tons, five warships of more than 1,000 tons, plus these two are nine, the rest are still iron-clad sail warships, most of the tonnage is about 1,000 tons, relatively backward.

The arrival of these two warships also brought them some new technology, the whole modified paddle wheel and small steam engine, and the other seven were refitted, which could give some assistance when the sail warship was sailing, and with these helps, they were more agile than the Spanish warships when fighting.

There were twenty-three warships in total, which was a lot less than the total number of thirty-five warships of the Spaniards, but they were confident that they could defeat the iron-clad sail warships of the backward Spain, and for them, they might even try to challenge the fleet of the Chinese Empire.

At present, most of the fleet of the Chinese Empire is still sail warships, wrapped in iron sheets, a small number of iron and iron warships, only a small part of them are newly equipped new steam warships, each fleet is only about a dozen, I heard that there are still many problems, it is not impossible to challenge success, with the British Navy's mature and decades of experience in maritime operations, Rear Admiral Gibbs feels that it is very likely to succeed in the challenge.

But that will have to wait until the Spanish warships that dare to challenge them will make them look good.

The sea breeze grew colder, the waves swayed, the bell rang, the sailors came down from their posts, and went into the cabin, where plates of liquid food were served, and then thrown into silver plates like pieces of, not all of them were silver plates, many were wooden bowls, or ceramic plates.

With the exception of a few British sailors and officers, most of the sailors and soldiers were recruited, or Indians, from all the states and tribes of India, and they could not even sit at the table to eat, but one by one, they came to the hammock in the bottom barn, or squatting, or standing, or sitting, leaning on the thick ribs of the cabin, and eating with their hands on the food on the plates.

The officers wrapped themselves in a white napkin, then used forks and spoons, drank beautiful rum, wine, and brandy, laughed and ate a sumptuous dinner, which included not only beef and pork chops, but also grapes and apples, as well as sandwiches, jams, and cream.

At the same time, the Spanish fleet was busy, the commander of the fleet, Rear Admiral Montero, was in the main cabin of the flagship, holding oil and gas lamps, carefully observing the charts, and outside was busy, some were collecting the sails, some were carrying ammunition, some were scrubbing the deck, some were maintaining the artillery, and one by one the wagons were carrying vegetables and fruits, and all kinds of grain to the ship's cabin, and the garbage cleaned in the cabin was thrown into the sea, and the ammunition was replenished into the ship's cabin.

In the distance, the intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Department hid in the room of the port, watched the busy Spaniards through the window, and whispered, "Bei Tuo, has the information leaked to the Spaniards?" ”

"Chief, I have revealed, we have done very carefully, the commander of the Spanish fleet has been very careful, and in the afternoon he has sent someone to check on the merchant ships that pretend to be at sea, and the British are hiding in the harbor fifty miles away, and if they set off tonight, at least in the middle of the night, at dawn, they can take advantage of the dawn to sneak attack the anchorage of the British."

After speaking, he said worriedly: "Chief, this is a bit bad, if the Spaniards clean up the last bit of the British's family foundation, the Spaniards will definitely have to gain an inch, if they seize India, we will be thankless, the front is based on the wolf and the tiger, this is not good, it is better to make the British weaker, but it is not that there is no strength to fight back, let the Spaniards suffer a big loss, but not to hurt the fundamentals, otherwise the strength of the British is likely to wipe out the Spaniards at once, in that case, our operation will be in vain." ”

The guy walked around, and from time to time he opened the curtains and looked at the Spanish fleet in the port outside, after tonight, maybe tomorrow after day, if it was really as they thought, then these people don't know how many people will come back, and these ships don't know how many will come back, and it is estimated that most of them will sink into the sea.

But this is not something he can stop, he has to let the Spaniards and the British fight, and then it is better for the Spaniards to win, the British to lose a small defeat, and then the Spaniards can stay here, and the British go back to accumulate strength or seek other ways to solve the matter, or recognize the fact that the Spaniards are here, then there will be a balance here, the Chinese Empire has planted a nail in the territory of the last Far East of the Westerners, and both sides will have to rely on the Chinese Empire, of course, it is possible to a certain extent, after a while, The two sides united again to find trouble for the Huaxia Empire, and the Huaxia Empire itself was looking for trouble.

But this is a matter for the future, now the Spaniards have to stay here, the British have lost that place in Pakistan, lost that place in Afghanistan, lost Burma and the Naga Mountains, although the ban on the sea has been lifted, they can come from the sea, but after all, they have come from afar, the strength cannot be too great, and the Chinese Empire can control them.

Let them obediently do business in Huaxia, instead of looking for things all day long, looking for things, some of the Huaxia Navy fleet, which has not fought for more than ten years, is busy, and it is just right to test the combat effectiveness of the newly equipped sailor fleet.

(End of chapter)